Aesthetic Bookworms﷼

|Here for the aesthetic™|archaeologist/art historian|

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from an essay featured in "In Other Worlds," originally published in 2011

[threeamserif]

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[mollybeenoel]

[ruhlare]

[ruhlare]

[aesthetic-bookworms]

Gentle hands in detail

[franz-bauch-foto]

Before sunrise

[lunamonchtuna]

— Jean-Paul Sartre, from The Flies (tr. by Stuart Gilbert & Lionel Abel), 1943 (via lunamonchtuna)

[ancientcharm]

Baths of Pompeii

[aesthetic-bookworms]

It is the 1st of May, it's always the flowers that can tell.

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[stormmyk]

People saw this and chose the boring windows we have now…

[psalmlover]

skull of a young greek girl from 300 bc buried with a ceramic flower crown

[aesthetic-bookworms]

[frrenzetic]

[threeamserif]

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[prokopetz]

I feel like 90% of "ancient curses" are probably adequately explained by the fact that the self-proclaimed adventurers who ostensibly fell victim to them were, as a class, a bunch of dipshits who engaged in frequent international travel in an era before antibiotics and vaccines. Like, the list of novel pathogens these guys were risking exposure to on a regular basis was effectively "all of them". That's gotta leave a mark.

[sag3s]

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness